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Presidential Election Results

Data from Jan 1993 to Jan 2023Updated 6 months ago

ELD (Elections Department)

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PresidentialElectionResults.csv (11 rows, 394 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Candidates Text	Vote Count Text	Vote Percentage Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)18.2%	(Null)18.2%
1993	Chua Kim Yeow	670358	0.4131
1993	Ong Teng Cheong	952513	0.5869
1999	S R Nathan	na	na
2005	S R Nathan	na	na
2011	Tan Cheng Bock	738311	0.3485
2011	Tan Jee Say	530441	0.2504
2011	Tony Tan Keng Yam	745693	0.352
2011	Tan Kin Lian	104095	0.0491
2023	Ng Kok Song	390636	0.1572
2023	Tharman Shanmugaratnam	1749261	0.7041

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Candidates	candidates	Text	-	-
Vote Count	vote_count	Text	-	-
Vote Percentage	vote_percentage	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c7f1fb58083c1c44bb8418eb4d909fd5"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Elections Department. (2016). Presidential Election Results (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c7f1fb58083c1c44bb8418eb4d909fd5/view

About this dataset

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Created on

02 Nov 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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ELD (Elections Department)

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